Hunters have recently found what appears to be the wreckage of the aircraft near the airport it took off from in some marshland. The mystery deepens
slightly though, as the remains of 11 people were found in the wreckage. The wreckage found was from an AN-2 similar to the one that went missing,
but it hasn't yet been officially identified as the aircraft in question.

May 5 (Reuters) - The wreckage of a Russian light aircraft that disappeared last June with 13 people on board has been discovered by hunters just
a few kilometres from the plane's takeoff strip near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.

Rescue teams were unable to find the An-2 light biplane, which took off without permission on June 11 from a regional airport in Serov with a pilot
and 12 passengers on board. Official search efforts were halted four months later.

Investigators had suspected that the group on board, which included Serov's traffic police chief, could have taken an unscheduled flight after a
drinking session to go on a fishing trip or to visit a Russian-style sauna.

I have read this a while ago somewhere on the German news... and seriously I was like "wtf???"
what where this guys thinking??

"sure let's make a fishing trip, a plane would come in handy of course... ah look there, lets take this one"

I have been really really drunk sometimes (hey don't blame me I am a beer loving German), but I would never ever ever ever have such an idea. I
wonder how they could take off, since they must have been soooo messed up

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